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Letters Patent No. 68,302, dated August 27, 1867.

PLAYING-GARD BOARD.

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, RALPH S. JENNINGS, ot' the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful improvement in Playing-Card Boards for travellers; and-I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to construct a board upon which cards may be carried, the state of each .game marked, and the number of the games played accurately kept, and which may be folded or packed in -a small compass when not in use, so as to be easily transported.

To this e'n`d I construct a board in four sections, as represent-ed on the drawings, Figure I, and marked respectively A, B, C, and l). These several sections are united together, when the board is prepared for use, by means of grooves and tongues, as shown in Figure 2. v

The letter Eon iig. 1 represents compartments for holding the cards', and small cavities in the bottom of the board, in which fingers are used to take the bottom cards from the compartments. The letters G- G represent discs and pointers with which the 'state of the game is kept, and the letters H H represent discs and-pointers for keeping the number of games played. l

These several sections when united serve not only for a playing-card hoard but also make a convenient luncheon-table, using the bottom side thereof for the purpose last named. Thesections when folded hold the cards securely in the several compartments E, and are easily held and transported in a small case or bag.

What I claim, isv A playing-card board, constructed in sections as described, and having compartments E, with nger-holes therein for taking up the cards, and discs and pointers G Gr and H H, all arranged and combined substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

RALPH S. JENNINGS.

Yv'itnesses J. C. SMITH, A. G. HEYLMAN. 

